Invisible Helpers

CHAPTER III.

All the above stories are comparatively well-known and may be found in some of the books that contain collections of such accounts—most of them in Dr. Lee’s More Glimpses of the World Unseen; but the two instances which I am now about to give have never been in print before, and both occurred within the last ten years—one to myself, and the other to a very dear friend of mine, a prominent member of the Theosophical Society The Theosophical Society, founded in 1875, explored esoteric and occult philosophies., whose accuracy of observation is beyond all shadow of doubt.

My own story is a simple one enough, though not unimportant to me, since the interposition undoubtedly saved my life. I was walking one exceedingly wet and stormy night down a quiet back street near Westbourne Grove, struggling with scant success to hold up an umbrella against the savage gusts of wind that threatened every moment to tear it from my grasp, and trying as I labored along to think out the details of some work upon which I was just then engaged.